NCSE Evolution Education Update for 2010/11/05

Dear Friends of NCSE,
The latest addition to NCSE's website: articles in Spanish. And new
praise for Not in Our Classrooms.

NCSE EN ESPAÑOL
NCSE is pleased to announce the debut of NCSE's Recursos en español --
the most popular articles from NCSE's website in Spanish translation.
Already posted are Controversia acerca del creacionismo, Cuál es la
edad de la tierra?, Dios y la evolución, Educación sobre la evolución,
Enfrentando los problemas, Entre la ciencia y la religión, Primeras
evidencias de vida, and ¿Cómo leer la Biblia? Permíteme contarte las
maneras.
NCSE is grateful to Alejandra Estrin Dashe, Julian Giaccobe, Pedro
Hernandez, Richard Rodriguez, and Lourdes Sanchez for translating and
reviewing these articles. Further articles in Spanish will be posted
in the future -- please let the NCSE office know if there are articles
that you would especially like to see translated. And if you find
these resources useful, please bookmark the Recursos en español page!
NCSE is still seeking volunteers to assist in translating selected
resources from its website into Spanish. If you read and write both
languages fluently, are interested in helping NCSE's outreach to the
Spanish-speaking community, and are able to make a serious commitment
to the project, you are cordially invited to get in touch with NCSE's
Peter M. J. Hess at espanol@ncse.com.
Also invaluable for speakers of Spanish who wish to learn or teach
about evolution is Comprendiendo la evolución para profesores -- a
translation, provided by Sociedad Española de Biología Evolutiva (the
Spanish Society for Evolutionary Biology), of the Understanding
Evolution for Teachers section of the acclaimed Understanding
Evolution website operated by the University of California Museum of
Paleontology.
For Recursos en español, visit:
http://ncse.com/es
For Comprendiendo la evolución para profesores, visit:
http://www.sesbe.org/evosite/evohome.html
NEW PRAISE FOR NOT IN OUR CLASSROOMS
Four years after its publication, Not in Our Classrooms: Why
Intelligent Design is Wrong for our Schools (Beacon Press, 2006), is
still receiving praise from the reviewers. In the latest review,
published in the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture
(2010; 4 [3]: 228-250), Mark H. Dixon of Ohio Northern University
writes:
***
The papers in this volume serve to reinforce what those who have had a
rigorous science education have long known: there are no real
scientific controversies at all about evolution as a process. The
evidence is as unequivocal as scientific evidence can be -- evolution
is a discernible, testable, and verifiable scientific process. All
that "intelligent design" proponents can do is to continue to sow
confusion. While it is regrettable they are necessary, books like Not
In Our Classrooms provide an accessible, illuminating, and most
welcome perspective on the intelligent design movement.
***
Edited by NCSE's Eugenie C. Scott and Glenn Branch, Not in Our
Classrooms contains essays by Scott, Nicholas J. Matzke and Paul R.
Gross, Martinez Hewlett and Ted Peters, Jay D. Wexler, Brian Alters,
and Branch, as well as a foreword by the Reverend Barry W. Lynn. Bill
Nye the Science Guy recommends: "If you're concerned about scientific
literacy, read this book."
For Dixon's review (PDF), visit:
http://www.equinoxjournals.com/JSRNC/article/view/9047/6903
For information about Not in Our Classrooms, visit:
http://ncse.com/nioc
Thanks for reading! And don't forget to visit NCSE's website --
http://ncse.com -- where you can always find the latest news on
evolution education and threats to it.
--
Sincerely,
Glenn Branch
Deputy Director
National Center for Science Education, Inc.
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Oakland, CA 94609-2509
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Antievolutionists Say the Darndest Things

Antievolutionists often express outrage over alleged incivility from those who oppose their efforts to evade the establishment clause of the First Amendment. But they have no difficulty in dishing out the abuse themselves. Here is a sample from the Invidious Comparisons thread that documents egregious behavior on the part of the religious antievolution advocates.

IDC advocate Phillip E. Johnson:

Gould’s uncomfortable situation reminds me of the self-created predicament of Mikhail Gorbachev in the last years of the Soviet Empire. Gorbachev recognized that something had gone wrong with the Communist system, but thought that the system itself could be preserved if it was reformed. His democratic friends warned him that the Marxist fundamentalists would inevitably turn against him, but he was unwilling to endanger his position in the ruling elite by following his own logic to its necessary conclusion. Gould, like Gorbachev, deserves immense credit for bringing glasnost to a closed society of dogmatists. And, like Gorbachev, he lives on as a sad reminder of what happens to those who lack the nerve to make a clean break with a dying theory.